Joe Biden

We should be signing off on it; that the administration identify what are those vulnerabilities.

You are a hell of a lot closer to what the number is than what we are saying it is for homeland security.

The role of the Federal Government, it seems to me, should be doing what we do best and let the States do what they do best.

Community policing was the sine qua non for dealing with law enforcement locally.

The States can do whatever they want, but the States, it seems to me, if we are providing Federal monies, should have these standards.

I am willing to stake my political career on it. It is a guarantee that it will be wasted.

We believe the Department's proposals are inconsistent with the intent of the FLSA and the scope of the Department's own authority.

Congress intended for the FLSA overtime protections to apply to the vast majority of workers and for the exemptions to cover a limited few.

The resolution I introduced expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should declare its support for the right of the people of Kosovo to determine their political future

They're probably all hanging out with Saddam and Bin Laden, wherever they are.

Will the signature of those agreements by Bosnia and other countries damage their chances of getting into the EU?

Does the administration consider Serbia and Montenegro's recent cooperation to meet NATO's Partnership for Peace requirements with respect to prosecution of war criminals having been met?

The future of the Balkans lies with the European Union.

Even discussion of a, quote, 'final status,' that was anything other than being part of Serbia was something that was a nonstarter in most of Europe.

There are two resolutions out there right now, and you're opposed to both of them.

To achieve those benchmarks, it is not so much where we direct money, as it is someone there directing the operation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing.

I will respond to what I know firsthand. I can only speak firsthand to the White House. It is my understanding, and it has been asserted to me, that there have been discussions with senior Republicans--I assume that that was shared by…

So this is a very, very serious issue, in my judgment, and one not easily handled in the normal ways that we deal with legislation here.

It seems to me that, in our own legislative way, that we have to authorize our administration, at least the President of the United States to be able to go places that are very difficult on behalf of American people.

If keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of our enemies is our number one security threat--who is in charge of this important mission?

I want to congratulate the efforts you have made to grant the executive branch permanent waiver authority.

We must quicken the pace and expand the scope of what we seek to accomplish.

Russia's nuclear weapons and weapons materials are still dangerously insecure.

The basic threat--and it's a real threat--is the same: weapons of mass destruction in the hands of people who are crazy enough to use them.